This old rocking chair has been intent on tripping me up for seven years. Summer in Victoria is usually a scorching, dry heat, and so leaving it on a north-facing bull-nose veranda is not ideal, even though these chairs tend to add serenity and warmth to porch settings. Here it’s on the back porch –[…]
‘Taronga Zoo‘ by Pat Magee (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Posted on February 24, 2020 by moondrift Australia is facing a crisis on so many levels. The worst natural disaster in its history has seen fires break as early as mid-August 2019 near Bega in New South Wales. Today we have been informed that the East Gippsland bushfire in Victoria[…]
This essay explores the premise that: ‘Literary journalism demands immersion in complex, difficult subjects. The voice of the writer surfaces to show that an author is at work’. I refer to two book-length examples of the true-crime sub-genre in support of this statement. Beginning with Repeat Offender, written by veteran Las Vegas detective Bradley[…]
